[To Mr. Xu:
Long time no see, are you okay?
The nine realms are changeable, and the time sequence is uncertain. After all, things that do not conform to the heavenly number are extremely fixed places. The gentleman put himself in a dangerous situation and planned for a long time, which really makes us feel ashamed that we can't work more.
The letter of persuasion has been issued, but the meaning of the author is not clear. The only word "authority" is used to cover the current expectations. I said that there is nothing we can do about the situation in the world. If orders are changed in the morning and overnight, it may be difficult to achieve great success.
This transformation may have exhausted our efforts. If the plan fails, sir, you can take the top red fruit for yourself. This is what you deserve. Don't worry about our friends who listen to chess losing their position.
mutual encouragement.
Not well-known]
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Liu Shan had already raised his hand and aimed at the portrait, while Lu Ning also held down the hilt of the knife vigilantly. After all, the principal's office had been abandoned for many years, and no one knew if there were any monsters lurking here.
"Did you really see this painting move?" Liu Shan waited for a while and saw nothing unusual, then looked sideways at Lu Ning.
"I absolutely don't believe it's dazzling..."
As soon as Lu Ning opened her mouth, the portrait's mouth squirmed again and slowly opened. This time, she didn't need to say anything, Liu Shan had already seen it and was about to pull the trigger of the crossbow.
"Wait a moment, you two."
Qingyue's voice came out of the portrait's mouth, causing Liu Shan to stop for a moment.
"Please do not damage this portrait at will. It is easy to destroy it, but that will make our negotiations much more difficult."
"Who are you?"
"It's the person in this painting."
Only the mouth of the portrait is moving, but the entire expression is still rigid, which looks very strange. Lu Ning glanced around suspiciously, and the purpose of this action was immediately apparent to the portrait.
"I am now looking at you through the eyes of this painting. If you don't believe it, you should know about the monster of 'old photos from the late 19th century'."
Lu Ning didn't know, but she glanced at Liu Shan.
"That kind of monster should be small in size and highly aggressive." Liu Shan said in a deep voice.
"I've made some changes to it, but we can talk about that later."
"Then what should we call you?" Lu Ning asked.
"You can just call me principal. I know you, Lu Ning, and Liu Shan. We know each other in a sense."
Lu Ning immediately understood the meaning of this sentence, while Liu Shan was still a little confused. The principal did not point it out when he saw it, and continued: "I will get straight to the point. This communication with you is for the purpose of recruiting you two. "
"Solicitation? After you did something like that?"
Investigations in various worlds have long left traces. Lu Ning knew that the principal must have grasped clues about many people, so at this moment, he no longer worried about many people and directly made it clear.
"The professor's behavior was unacceptable."
The principal responded immediately.
"The Dream Mirror Channel is a shuttle method that uses the locations with the highest overlap between all worlds to reduce errors, but establishing the channel means opening the bridge between the worlds again. If you can go back through it, then the monsters in these worlds will also can also."
"So you're going to kill someone?"
"Yes, because I know the professor. He will use various methods to tell me that the possibility of an accident in the passage is minimal, and then continue with his plan." The principal said, "Other than killing him, there is no good way to stop him. Professor He is too concerned about the people lost in this world, but his behavior goes against our previous emergency response measures."
"Countermeasures...you mean your plan is still going on?" Lu Ning suddenly realized this problem.
"Yes, you don't think everything before was a coincidence, do you?"
The principal said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Let me give you an example. If people discover a planet in the universe, there are rich resources there, and even after certain modifications, humans can survive there. However, the current environment is relatively harsh, and the indigenous people are also suffering from it. Disaster…how will we deal with it?”
"Try to change the environment there?"
"That's just one of them. You don't understand the specific process. To put it simply, it is research, contact, exploration and control."
The principal threw out these four cold words.
"Any project plan can only be implemented after all the planning from the initial to the final stage has been completed. You have understood the situation of this experimental plan. When decoherence occurred that year, the plan only entered the contact step. That’s all.”
"But you didn't notify anyone, right? Everyone was sucked into this second step without asking what their wishes were."
"They will inevitably become the pioneers of exploration, because no one knows the world here better than them. After the initial chaos, there were still many people who decided to continue after I explained the next exploration plan, but unfortunately we failed to gather everyone."
"Wei Shu..."
"He's just one of our members." The principal's tone even contained a hint of pride. "If people who don't know the inside story saw what happened in previous years, they would probably think that we failed? But no, everything is still going according to the planned track. Now, our people are exploring these nine worlds, and we are very aware of the dangers here, so we must not allow this place to be connected back to our world."
"That means I can't go back? Then what's there to talk about?" Liu Shan suddenly said loudly.
"I said that the passage cannot be opened while the world here is still in a high-risk state." The principal still answered quickly, as if the two of them had all the answers in mind, "But it is definitely not forever. We have already It can make certain transformations on some of the weak monsters in these worlds, and it also has the ability to open up a pure land for people here. When a real safe zone is established, we will no longer have to worry about the various dangers that may be caused by going back. When the time comes, you can go home.”
"Then it's still..."
"Because of this, I need those of you who have entered here by mistake, the energetic and action-minded people to help me and speed up this process. Because helping me is also helping you. You have already experienced the world here, Cryptomeria, You lost your arm here. If such a powerful monster enters our world along the passage, it will be a moving natural disaster."
His words completely blocked Liu Shan's room for argument.
"We only need to proceed to the fourth step, dominate, dominate a part of these nine worlds. At that time, we can unlock the closed area of the campus and step into the wider world outside. What we are doing is from zero to one This most arduous process is also the first step for human beings to take towards outside civilization."
Although this sounds nice, Lu Ning doesn't accept this trick at all.
"Before bragging about the future, let's talk about something concrete first. Even if you want us to join, how long will it take? How dangerous is it? After so many years, someone will still enter here by mistake. How come What's going on? Also, the so-called domination means establishing a base?"
"The fact that you can think so much shows how good you are. I have been exploring here for two years and have formed a large enough force here. According to the current progress, I will be able to finish everything in two years. Danger naturally exists. I will provide you with the best equipment and supplies, but I will not make any absolute safety guarantees. That is deception. As for the people who enter here, most of them are resonating based on our world. I accidentally passed through the Dream Mirror Channel. This is a cyclic event, but it is also very accidental. Finally, with a starting point, it will become more convenient to transport teams to this world. "
The principal answered all Lu Ning's questions easily, then paused for a moment, and then said: "You already understand the truth about part of these nine worlds, and you must understand that leaving like this is harmful and unhelpful. The resources and conditions I have must not be a professor." What you can compare with your hands, you might as well consider it carefully.”
"So, tell me how to resolve the last conflict?"
"You handle it internally." The principal said simply, "No matter how far it develops, the one who has accumulated more power will win in the end, don't you think so?"
"So you can't give me anything I want." Lu Ning shook her head, "Then at least... do you know what the engineer is doing?"
"A stupid corrector is trying to restore all worlds to their original non-overlapping state. If you don't support my idea, he plans to keep everyone here forever."
"Then why don't you deal with the engineer's problem?"
"All of us are avoiding the eyes and ears of others. It is the limit to understand each other's action plan a little bit. If we want to catch him, someone must take the initiative to expose himself, just like the professor." The principal said, "If there is a chance, of course I will Engineers will not be spared.”
Lu Ning glanced at Liu Shan and found that she was already entangled.
"How many cedar trees are there in these worlds?"
She suddenly asked this question, and both the principal and Liu Shan were stunned for a moment.
"What? Several me...what do you mean?" Liushan couldn't react for a moment.
"Zhengshu, attack, disgust." The principal basically understood what Lu Ning meant, "She is excellent, but excellent people may not survive, and the same goes for you. You who support the crowd have died in the poisonous world. , it is the remains that you, the greedy man, retrieved with your own hands."
"You have established a surveillance network that connects various worlds, and the person I am talking to now is not in this rainstorm world, right?"
"That's right."
"Two years have passed since you came in, but fifty years have passed outside." Lu Ning raised a smile, "If I follow you for another two years, when I go back, will those people still be there? What is the time difference between the two sides? What? I'm sorry..."
"If you refuse, then I can't keep you."
Lu Ning drew her knife and cut the portrait in half, then stretched out her hand to pull Liu Shan: "Quickly go!"
The moment the two ran out the door, a cold and sinister smell of blood spread in the air.
"Just now..."
"How do you usually travel between the worlds!"
Lu Ning asked directly.
In the previous descriptions of different worlds, Liu Shan showed no surprise, which meant that she knew about the coexistence of multiple worlds, but Yanfei did not have the means to travel freely, so there must be some other way.
"If I could see the 'door'..."
"Door?"
"It's rare. It's like a piece of space is trapped. A single door has no effect. If there are two doors, a distortion point will be formed in the middle. Through that, you can enter other worlds."
"Anyway, it can't be worn now?" Lu Ning raised an eyebrow.
At this moment, a gunshot was heard from behind. The two of them separated and rolled to the side, and a cloud of bullets passed through the middle.
"Hey, that's pretty fast."
Five people wearing all kinds of weird armors came out of the house, both men and women. Judging from their posture, these people had gone through a lot of training, and they were probably tourists.
"A quick victory?"
“I really don’t know why the two professors sent so many people here——”
There was a sudden sound of breaking through the air, and the crossbow arrow was shot from Cryptomeria's hand. A man holding a bone shield quickly put the shield over. With a muffled sound, the crossbow arrow penetrated into the shield and pierced a large crack. The man also took a step back. It can be regarded as removing the strength of this arrow.
"Tsk, kill the long-range ones first."
Two women in black robes and armor drew their long knives and rushed towards the square where the crossbow arrows were fired. But at this moment, the crossbow arrows pierced on the bone shield suddenly exploded, shattering the bone shield and also blowing the side. The two women who rushed past were thrown away.
"Explosive arrows. The equipment level of these two people is not bad. Be careful when dealing with them." The leader was carrying two shotguns. He waited for the two people to get up and then warned them with a grin.
Such an explosion only made them a little embarrassed, and the person holding the shield didn't even hurt his arm. The protection of this group of people was quite strong.
Lu Ning quickly walked around Liu Shan from the corridor on the other side. Fortunately, the floor area of the D1 building is not small. Even though most of this floor is the principal's office, there are still many rooms in the other corridor.
"That's basically my strongest attack." Liu Shan said helplessly when she saw Lu Ning running over.
"It's okay, let's leave this building now."
"Where to run!"
Another shot of shotgun blasted out from the corridor, but the distance was too far. Lu Ning pulled the door at hand to block the bullet, and rushed towards the stairs with Liu Shan.
"Are there any bombs? Throw two to block them."
Lu Ning jumped onto the handrail of the stairs, kicked off her legs and slid down the handrail quickly. Liu Shan took out two grenades and threw them into the corridor, and followed suit and slid down the stairs.
boom! boom!
There were two explosions, followed by a burst of yelling and cursing. Lu Ning didn't care so much and slid downstairs as fast as possible, occasionally glancing out of the window.
"Lu Ning! Some of them are coming downstairs!" Liu Shan looked up and immediately shouted, followed by a loud gunshot from the gap between the stair railings, and the scattered bullets grazed Lu Ning this time. A burning pain came from his cheek. He raised his hand and touched it, and there was a trace of blood on his hand.
"That's the angle here." Lu Ning jumped off the handrail on the eleventh floor and ran to the corridor on one side. Liu Shan didn't know what she wanted to do, so she turned around and took a look before following closely.
Then, she saw a black figure appearing in mid-air outside the window at the end of the corridor.
